138: Lisa Lacy in the hot seat with Healing Through Truth

What happens when someone who appears to have everything together is secretly falling apart?In this powerful episode of Listen Bitch Presents: Tell Me Why You’re Special, Branden sits down with writer and trauma educator Lisa Lacey to discuss her upcoming memoir, Notes from a Certified Madwoman, and the life experiences that inspired her to write it.Lisa shares the reality behind appearing successful on the outside while privately battling mental illness, trauma, self-hatred, and emotional pain. She opens up about psychiatric hospitalization, being misdiagnosed, recovery, therapy, addiction recovery programs, and the difficult process of learning to trust herself again.The conversation explores trauma triggers, childhood wounds, self-acceptance, personal accountability, healing beyond labels, and why so many high-achieving women silently struggle despite looking successful to everyone around them.Branden and Lisa also discuss the power of storytelling, the importance of sharing difficult truths, toxic coaching and therapy environments, neurodiversity, intuition, and why healing often begins when people stop hiding their experiences.This episode is an honest conversation about mental health, resilience, recovery, and the courage it takes to tell the truth about your life.Lisa Lacy is a writer, trauma educator, and author of the upcoming memoir Notes From a Certified Madwoman and its companion Field Guide: The Psychology of Performance™️. After more than three decades in corporate education, healthcare consulting, performance, and storytelling, Lisa now speaks and writes about addiction, psychosis, trauma, nervous systems, identity masking, reinvention, and the hidden realities of high functioning survival in women. Drawing from lived experience, recovery, and years teaching trauma informed emotional intelligence in addiction recovery centers across Georgia, Lisa creates conversations that are psychologically informed without sounding clinical, emotionally honest, unexpectedly funny, and deeply human.https://www.lisalacy.com/about-1